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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Jeremiah bewails the sins of the people—They will be scattered among the heathen and punished.
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Oh</span> that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Mourning.">tears</a>, that I might <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Despair; TG Suffering.">weep</a> day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!  for they <i>be</i> all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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And they bend their tongues <i>like</i> their bow <i>for</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 64: 3.">lies</a>: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 17: 3; D&C 101: 16.">know</a> not me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Micah 7: 5 (5-6); 2 Ne. 28: 31; D&C 1: 19.">trust</a> ye not in any brother: for every brother will <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/4b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR consistently deceive.">utterly</a> supplant, and every neighbour will walk with <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/9/4c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Slander.">slanders</a>.
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And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Lying.">lies</a>, <i>and</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/5b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR are impatient.">weary</a> themselves to commit iniquity.
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Thine habitation <i>is</i> in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, Behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 23: 7 (7-9); D&C 133: 41.">melt</a> them, and <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 25 (25-26); Mal. 3: 2 (2-3).">try</a> them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
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Their tongue <i>is as</i> an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: <i>one</i> speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">heart</a> he layeth his wait.
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&#182; Shall I not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 12: 1; D&C 124: 50.">visit</a> them for these <i>things?</i>  saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: shall not my soul be <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 5: 9 (9, 29); Jer. 44: 22.">avenged</a> on such a nation as this?
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For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through <i>them;</i> neither can <i>men</i> hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, <i>and</i> a den of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB jackals.">dragons</a>; and I will make the cities of Judah <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 7; 2 Ne. 13: 8.">desolate</a>, without an inhabitant.
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&#182; Who <i>is</i> the wise man, that may understand this?  and <i>who is he</i> to whom the mouth of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth <i>and</i> is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Disobedience.">obeyed</a> my voice, neither walked therein;
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But have walked after the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 12: 18.">imagination</a> of their own heart, and after <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/14b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Chr. 33: 3.">Baalim</a>, which their fathers taught them:
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, <i>even</i> this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">scatter</a> them also among the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Woman.">women</a>, that they may come; and send for cunning <i>women,</i> that they may come:
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And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled!  we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast <i>us</i> out.
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Yet hear the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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For death is come up into our windows, <i>and</i> is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, <i>and</i> the young men from the streets.
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Speak, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Even the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 7: 33.">carcases</a> of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather <i>them.</i>
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&#182; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Let not the wise <i>man</i> glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty <i>man</i> glory in his might, let not the rich <i>man</i> glory in his <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">riches</a>:
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But let him that glorieth <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 1: 31; 2 Cor. 10: 17 (15-18); Alma 26: 36 (36-37).">glory</a> in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these <i>things</i> I <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/9/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Micah 7: 18.">delight</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Behold, the days come, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that I will punish all <i>them which are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">circumcised</a> with the uncircumcised;
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Egypt, and Judah, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/9/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 25: 21.">Edom</a>, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all <i>that are</i> in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all <i>these</i> nations <i>are</i> uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel <i>are</i> uncircumcised in the heart.
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